In 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional. In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. In 1947, 'The Diary of a Young Girl,' the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published. Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. The secret apartment is now a museum that stands as a reminder of Anne, her family and the millions of other Jewish people who died during one of the worst events in human history.Today is Saturday, June 25, the 176th day of 2022. It's read by kids and adults all around the world.

Since then, 30 million copies have been sold and it's been translated into 70 different languages. In 1947, he decided to publish Anne's diary so her story and her memory could live on. The only one to survive the concentration camps was Otto, Anne's Dad. Anne, her mother and her sister all died in this concentration camp, called Bergen-Belsen before it was liberated by British troops in 1945 when the war ended. The Nazis discovered the secret apartment and sent everyone there to a concentration camp. Sadly, on the 4th of August,1944 the thing the Franks feared most happened. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor. Everyone had to stay completely silent during the day so that people on the other side of the walls wouldn't hear them and report them to the Nazis.ĪNNE FRANK DIARY ENTRY MAY 25, 1944: The world's been turned upside down. The place they lived in was small and cramped and they could never go outside. Anne continued to write in her diary as she lived a strange new life.ĪNNE FRANK DIARY ENTRY JULY 8, 1942: It's as if the whole world has suddenly turned upside down, but as you can see, Kitty, I'm still alive, and that's the main thing. They were joined by a Jewish man and another Jewish family and they were helped by Otto's loyal friends. So, the Franks went into hiding in a secret apartment behind her dad, Otto's, business. The Frank family thought they'd be safe in the Netherlands, but in 1940 the country was invaded by the Nazis and in 1942 Anne's older sister Margot was ordered to go to work in a camp. Millions of Jewish people were deliberately killed or died from terrible living conditions and these events are now known as The Holocaust. Eventually, they went one step further and planned to wipe out Europe's Jewish population, so they started arresting them and sending them to thousands of specially built prisons called concentration camps. The Nazis discriminated against Jews and took away their rights.

The Nazis started persecuting people who they didn't think were worthy members of society, mostly Jewish people like Anne and her family.

Hitler was obsessed with the idea of a 'pure' German race which he called 'Aryan' and he wanted that race to control all of Europe. She and her family had fled from Germany to the Netherlands to escape this man, Adolf Hitler and his political party known as the Nazis. You see, Anne was growing up in a world that was at war for a second time. Little did she know that her diary would one day become one of the most famous books in the world. When she was 13, she started keeping a diary, which she named Kitty.ĪNNE FRANK DIARY ENTRY JUNE 12, 1942: Dear Kitty, I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support. She lived with her family in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and loved reading and writing. In early 1942, Anne Frank was your average teenager.

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